To reduce waste of raw materials, the government of sperland is considering requiring household appliances to be broken down for salvage when discarded. to cover the cost of salvage, the government is planning to charge a fee, which would be imposed when the appliance is first sold. imposing the fee at the time of salvage would reduce waste more effectively, however, because consumers tend to keep old appliances longer if they are faced with a fee for discarding them. which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument? (a) increasing the cost of disposing of an appliance properly increases the incentive to dispose it improperly.(b) the fee provides manufacturers with no incentive to produce appliances that are more durable.(c) for people who have bought new appliances recently, the salvage fee would not need to be paid for a number of years.(d) people who sell their used, working appliances to others would not need to pay the salvage fee.(e) many nonfunctioning appliances that are currently discarded could be repaired at relatively little expense.

The price of trade suppose that portugal and sweden both produce rye and wine. portugal's opportunity cost of producing a bottle of wine is 4 bushels of rye while sweden's opportunity cost of producing a bottle of wine is 10 bushels of rye. by comparing the opportunity cost of producing wine in the two countries, you can tell thatportugal/sweden has a comparative advantage in the production of wine.andportugal/sweden has a comparative advantage in the production of rye. suppose that portugal and sweden consider trading wine and rye with each other. portugal can gain from specialization and trade as long as it receives more rye for each bottle of wine it exports to sweden. similarly, sweden can gain from trade as long as it receives more bottles of wine for each bushel of rye it exports to portugal. based on your answer to the last question, which of the following prices of trade (that is, price of wine in terms of rye) would allow both sweden and portugal to gain from trade? a. 1 bushels of rye per bottle of wineb. 8 bushels of rye per bottle of winec. 9 bushels of rye per bottle of wined. 3 bushels of rye per bottle of wine

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Rossdale co. stock currently sells for $68.91 per share and has a beta of 0.88. the market risk premium is 7.10 percent and the risk-free rate is 2.91 percent annually. the company just paid a dividend of $3.57 per share, which it has pledged to increase at an annual rate of 3.25 percent indefinitely. what is your best estimate of the company's cost of equity?